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External paving is provided at each nursery at the rate
of 25 sq. ft. per child. Air raid shelters are constructed of
reinforced brickwork with a reinforced concrete roof.
Two more nurseries, one in the Morden Hall Road, and the
other on the Camborne Road Clinic Site were planned during
the year. At the time of writing this report the one in Morden
Hall Road had been completed and ready to open when it
received extensive damage from H.E. blast. The other, on the
Camborne Road site, was abandoned at the direction of the
Ministry of Health.
CLEANSING STATION.
As will be seen from the appended table, 3,108 attendances
were made at the Cleansing Centre. This figure compares with
2,049 in 1942.
The supervision of the treatment is carried out by a trained
nurse, and the attendant and his wife who were originally
appointed for the slipper baths, and in addition to carry out
treatment in the cleansing section, have been assisted by
nursing auxiliaries from the First Aid Post.
The cleansing station which was specially designed for this
purpose and which contains an electric disinfector, has been of
the greatest value since it was opened in September, 1941. The
disinfector has been a most valuable apparatus, and in addition
to its use for the disinfection of clothing of cases of Scabies
undergoing treatment there, it has been extensively used for
sterilising blankets and other articles from cases of infectious
disease occurring among the A.R.P. Depots, Wardens' Posts
and firewatchers.
The Benzyl Benzoate treatment has generally been used
for Scabies. In cases of children Marcussens ointment is more
commonly used as it is found less irritating, and the duration
of treatment is not so important.
Lethane Oil continues to be used in the treatment of verminous
heads. It is found to be a most effective method of
rendering a verminous head non-infective, but our experience
is that it does not obviate the necessity for cleaning the head as
original claims for this treatment seem to suggest. Probably
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